I agree these are all great ideas. I think the XMark Benchmark would be my first preference. I know some UCR students that may be interested in applying for these as GSOC.
Vassilis On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Eldon Carman <[email protected]> wrote: > I wanted to get the ball started, so we could be ready for student > interaction. A few ideas are already in JIRA. I will add the missing ones. > > Thanks, > Preston > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Till Westmann <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I agree, those all should be fun projects and helpful projects. > > > > The next steps for us be to add those projects to JIRA with a GSoC tag, > as > > that's where people will look for it. > > I think that we're still a little early, as the mentoring organizations > > will only be finalized in February. > > But I think that it's a safe bet that the ASF will be in and it's good to > > do the project descriptions now. > > > > Cheers, > > Till > > > > > > On 26 Jan 2015, at 20:32, Michael Carey wrote: > > > > Those all sound like excellent projects! > >> UCI is also running a summer intern program for selected foreign > >> undergrads. > >> That might be another source of help, especially for something like the > >> first project. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Mike > >> > >> On 1/26/15 7:23 PM, Eldon Carman wrote: > >> > >>> Google Summer of Code (GSOC) is just around the corner and I wanted to > >>> suggest a few ideas. > >>> > >>> - XMark Benchmark - VXQuery still needs more XQuery coverage to run all > >>> the > >>> XMark queries. > >>> - HDFS Support - Many organizations are saving data to HDFS and it > would > >>> be > >>> great if VXQuery could read this data. In addition, the VXQuery cluster > >>> could even be managed by Yarn. > >>> - XML Indexing - Previous work was done on indexing XML, but the > project > >>> was never fully integrated into VXQuery. It would be nice to fully > >>> integrate XML indexing into VXQuery. > >>> > >>> What are the next steps for us (VXQuery) to participate in GSOC? > >>> > >>> >
